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Jungle is the debut studio album by London-based modern musical collective Jungle. It was released on 14 July 2014 through XL Recordings.

In September 2014, the album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize.[1]

Promotion

"Platoon" and "The Heat" were digitally released as the lead singles promoting the album on 16 December 2013.[2][3] The music video for "Platoon", which premiered on 4 June 2013, featured a 6-year-old B-girl named Terra,[4][5] while the video for "The Heat" featured British skate crew High Rollaz and was released on 1 October 2013.[5][6] Both videos were directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch.[5]

On 28 February 2014, a music video for the third single, "Busy Earnin'", was released onto YouTube.[7] The single was released digitally on 7 April 2014, and in vinyl format on 15 April.[8][9] The song peaked at number 19 on the UK Indie Chart and at number 27 on Ultratip chart in Belgian Flanders region in March,[10][11] and at number 118 in France in July 2014.[12]

A music video for the fourth single, "Time", was released on 8 July 2014.[13] On 8 September, remixes of the song by Joe Goddard and LXURY were released onto iTunes.[14][15]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[16]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[17]
Clash7/10[18]
The Guardian[19]
NME8/10[20]
The Observer[21]
Pitchfork6.2/10[22]

Upon its release, Jungle received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 21 reviews.[16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jungle

No.TitleLength
1."The Heat"3:16
2."Accelerate"3:04
3."Busy Earnin'"3:01
4."Platoon"3:12
5."Drops"2:53
6."Time"3:33
7."Smoking Pixels"1:47
8."Julia"3:15
9."Crumbler"3:02
10."Son of a Gun"3:28
11."Lucky I Got What I Want"4:16
12."Lemonade Lake"4:19
13."Bonus Track (unnamed, vinyl edition only)"1:11

Personnel

Charts

Charts (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[24] 20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[26] 38
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[27] 28
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[28] 42
French Albums (SNEP)[29] 42
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[30] 43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[31] 34
Scottish Albums (OCC)[32] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[33] 22
UK Albums (OCC)[34] 7
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[35] 1
US Billboard 200[36] 84

References

  1. ^ "2014 Shortlist - Barclaycard Mercury Prize". Barclaycard Mercury Prize. September 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Platoon / Drops - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ^ "The Heat / Lucky I Got What I Want - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Jungle - Platoon". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b c Newman, Jason (8 July 2014). "Funk Collective Jungle Prep Debut Album With Joyful New Video 'Time'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Jungle - The Heat". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Jungle - Busy Earnin'". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  8. ^ Breihan, Tom (3 March 2014). "JUNGLE. – "Busy Earnin'" Video". Stereogum. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  9. ^ "Busy Earnin [VINYL] by Jungle". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  10. ^ "2014-03-15 Top 40 Independent Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Discografie Jungle [UK]". Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  12. ^ "Discographie Jungle [UK]". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  13. ^ "Jungle - Time". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  14. ^ "Time (Joe Goddard Remix) - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  15. ^ "Time (LXURY Remix) - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  16. ^ a b "Reviews for Jungle by Jungle". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  17. ^ Thomas, Fred. "Jungle - Jungle". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  18. ^ Zadeh, Joe (3 July 2014). "Jungle - Jungle". Clash. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  19. ^ MacInnes, Paul (10 July 2014). "Jungle: Jungle review – enigmatic dance outfit lose a little mystique". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  20. ^ "Jungle - 'Jungle'". NME. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  21. ^ Empire, Kitty (13 July 2014). "Jungle review – self-titled slice of accomplished search-engine-unfriendly disco-funk". The Observer. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  22. ^ Beta, Andy (14 July 2014). "Jungle: Jungle". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  23. ^ a b "Jungle - Jungle | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  24. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Australiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  25. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  26. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  27. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Danishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  28. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Dutchcharts.nl. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  29. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  30. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Officialcharts.de. GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  31. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  32. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  33. ^ "Jungle – Jungle". Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  34. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  35. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  36. ^ "Jungle Album & Song Chart History". Billboard 200 for Jungle. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 10 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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